With the deepening of curriculum reform and the advancement of informatization, educational games have long become a research topic of high concern in the academic community. The study takes 368 academic papers related to educational game research included in the Web of Science database from 2017 to 2020 as the research object, and uses citation analysis, clustering analysis and multidimensional scaling analysis as research methods. After analysis, four major research hotspots in the field of educational games are obtained, and combined with th...